President Bush on Sunday defended the NSA warrantless surveillance program , saying the program was "limited" and was not a violation of civil liberties. Answering questions about the program during a visit to wounded troops at the...
Many new state laws took effect on Sunday, including measures to safeguard against child sex offenders and the misuse of personal information. Michigan strengthened its sex offender laws, and Illinois banned human trafficking, allowing state...
Iraqi Interior Minister Bayan Jabr , the minister in charge of Iraq's prison facilities, is expected to resign in the near future, according to multiple security and political sources. The reports follow accusations that he ran secret prisons...
The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals has agreed to hear arguments regarding the request of US Rep. Tom DeLay (R-TX) to speed up his money-laundering trial by either beginning the case immediately...
Turkish Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul said in a TV interview Wednesday that state slander laws used to prosecute Turkish novelist Orhan Pamuk and implicated as recently as Tuesday in a possible prosecutorial probe of comments...
Lawyers for so-called "dirty bomber" Jose Padilla have responded to the government's contention that Padilla's US Supreme Court appeal is moot and should be denied, insisting that his...
After a fifteen year-old girl was killed and six bystanders were injured Monday in a random shooting spree on a busy downtown shopping street, Toronto Mayor David Miller said Tuesday that weak US gun laws are partly...
Monitoring group Human Rights Watch Wednesday asked the G8 , the heads of government of the major industrial democracies, to convince Russian President Vladimir Putin not to sign a controversial bill that would create an oversight...
The US Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) substantively modified 179 Bush administration wiretap requests made after 2001, after declining to modify a single request in 20 of the 21 years between 1979 and 1999, according to an...
Turkish prosecutors launched an inquiry Tuesday into whether slander charges should be brought against a European Union lawmaker who made disparaging remarks about the Turkish army, an act criminalized by the revised Turkish penal code . Dutch legislator...
